3: Final CurtainL
The glamour of the music halls begins to fade for Richard.
Nick Ollanton: Tom Baker
Old Richard: Bryan Pringle
Young Richard: Richard Hollick
Tommy Beamish: Steven Frost
Julie Blane: Bridgit Forsyth
Inspector Furness/Johnson: Russell Dixon
Cissie Mapes: Deborah McAndrew
Nancy: Kathryn Hunt
Jennings: John Lloyd Allingham
Barney: Mike Edmunds
Sam: Freddie Davies
Sun 2nd Oct 1994, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Written in the mood of Angel Pavement, this imaginative novel is set in the years immediately before the First World War. In turns funny, sad, nostalgic, it is the story of young Richard Herncastle who travels the now vanished Music Halls (the 'Lost Empires') with his uncle, an illusionist. The core of the story is the young man's emotional awakening.
